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Nothing kills your appetite for the last fifteen minutes of a game like knowing they're scoreless and probably fairly ugly, so I bowed out of the US-Poland replay right after Eddie Lewis' fantastic free kick goal. Someday we'll score from the run of play again, but apparently we also don't need to, so hey, what the hell. A collection of random thoughts from the game:

• 3-0 was definitely more than we deserved. Not unfair, but not wholly accurate.
  
• Nice game from our defenders/forwards, especially from Cherundolo and Heath Pearce, who were defending well and getting forward effectively. This was especially nice seeing as Clint Dempsey was on sabbatical for this game.
  
• Bradley was kind of "eh" today. Not bad, certainly productive but Clark seemed more effective and took an aggressive role whereas Bradley kind of hung back. On the other hand, he was zipping some nice passes around and showing off what Dutch coaching has done for his touch.
  
• Forwards? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Which leads me to:
  
• Can we buy a large quantity of bubble wrap in which to place Jozy Altidore until, say, mid-2009?
  
• Finally, it's not that the new uniforms look bad. In fact, Nike is putting together a nice little streak of surprising me with shirts that look nowhere near as goofy in person as they do on ussoccerstore.com. But that blackish-greyish color is just...unnecessary. What's wrong with a blue or red shirt? Do we really needed to be reminded of nothing so much as mechanical pencils during our away games? Leave the crazy off-colors for club soccer.